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Coming Home #2 – The “Veterans’ Mental Health Stories” Anthology Returns with a Hard-Hitting LGBTQ+ Focus

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 10, 2024

In 2022 Broken Frontier reviewer Tom Baker described the first issue of the charity Re-Live’s Coming Home anthology series as “a creatively daring, admirably moral, and consciousness-raising book”, adding “here’s…

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Blinded #1 – A Tour-de-Force Showcase for the Letterer’s Craft in Rob Jones and Joe S. Farrar’s Experimental Story of Coming to Terms with Losing Your Sight

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 4, 2024

Covering work that is not just experimental but also actively interrogates the potential of the form is a central part of our mission here at Broken Frontier. In Blinded writer…

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Ugly Mug #8 – A Welcome Return to the “Industrial Strength Comics Compendium” from the House of Harley

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 29, 2024

Now settled firmly into an annual publication schedule, Ugly Mug #8 lives up to its tagline of “an industrial strength comics compendium” with another bumper collection of comic strips and…

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Clay Footed Giants – Mad Cave Studios’ New Tragicomic Asks, “Can We Fix Our Present by Understanding Our Past?”

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 27, 2024

Clay Footed Giants from Alain Chevarier and Mark McGuire is a deep, multi-faceted graphic novel, examining family trauma, modern masculinity and parenting. Published by Mad Cave Studios, and marketed as…

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The Incredible Story of Cooking – Benoist Simmat and Stéphane Douay Help Make Sense of What We Eat and Why, from NBM

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 21, 2024

In 2020, French journalist Benoist Simmat delved into one of his country’s oldest obsessions. The result was a graphic history of wine, tracing its origins from the Middle Ages to…

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A Pocket Chiller: Skeleton Hearts – A Haunting Winter Tale from Jenny Robins and Strip for Me

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! A perennial favourite in the Broken Frontier Awards in the Best Periodical Series category, Strip for Me’s A Pocket Chiller series has produced some truly disquieting one-shot…

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Tall Tales & Short Stories – The Vibrancy, Versatility and Brilliance of the UK Small Press Scene Brought to the Fore in this Year’s WIP Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If anyone ever tells you that the UK small press comics scene is in a state of decline…

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Living with the Living #1 – John Lynott and Shane Melisse Bring Us a New Supernatural Sitcom Comic Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Living with the Living originally saw life a few years ago as a webcomic but went on hiatus…

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Pricks #4 – The Latest Issue of Geesin and Rowan’s Darkly Comedic Skewering of Patriarchal Attitudes Ends with the Greatest Cliffhanger in the History of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks, in all its multi-named and numbered incarnations, has become one of my favourite Thought Bubble print fixtures, albeit a delightfully…

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Nostos – Annabel Hewitson Emphasises the Very Human in Her Science Fiction Minicomics Series

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Annabel Hewitson’s Nostos minicomics follow the adventures of Alexandros and m3.tis, the AI aboard his spaceship, as the pair travel through the stars. To date there…

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There’s a Party in My Body (and You’re All Invited) – Mereida Fajardo Takes Us on a Biological Rave in One of Our Thought Bubble Comics of the Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Every year at Broken Frontier as part of our Thought Bubble coverage we like to pick out one…

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Haru: Book 1: Spring – Joe Latham’s All-Ages Dark Fantasy is an Instant Classic of Its Genre

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! There are times when you read comics work that is so captivating and so delightful that you immediately fall in love with it. This was my…

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Queer Knights – Three Medieval Romances with an LGBTQ Twist from KitsuneArt, Audrey Molinatti and Atlantisvampir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! With a remit to explore “queer love stories in medieval/historical fantasy settings” Queer Knights features three stories; one from KitsuneArt who has featured on a number…

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Hometown – Psychogeography and Interacting with Our Pasts Examined in Harl Jones’ Haunting Minicomic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! In Hometown Harl Jones explores feelings that will, no doubt, be familiar to many. This minicomic short examines that odd sense of displacement that can occur…

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Fifteen Minutes – Reality and Fantasy Collide in Kai Dylan’s Slice-of-Life Tale of Sudden, Social Media-Inspired Fame

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Kai Dylan’s work first came to my attention via our most recent Broken Frontier Connects day of one-to-one Zoom mentoring sessions. The title Fifteen Minutes is…

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Sport – Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s Flipbook Comics Project Returns with a Match-Winning Formula

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH! 10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Over the years there have staples of Thought Bubble debut books that have come to represent certain eras of…

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Seed Part One – Enter the Delightful World of the Squashed Forest in Ellie Durkin’s Fantasy Comic

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 12, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Set in a fictional world called the Squashed Forest, Seed Part One from Ellie Durkin follows adorable wizard Figbert and his adventures (or misadventures) around the…

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Cryptids of Leeds – The Leeds Comics Collective Investigate Urban Cryptozoology with Work from Anna Readman, Cara Brown, James Patricks, James Lawrence, Frank Deacon and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2024

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! We are all about the idea of comics community here at Broken Frontier and today’s review subject is certainly a fine example of that. Cryptids of…

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